Improvement in oil-can vent-spouts



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OGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. D C,

waited tant nttnt @Wina I J. J. MARCY, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR'- TC HIMSELEAND E. MILLER & CO., SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 98,986, dated January 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CAN VENT-SPOUTS.

/ HOH* The Schedule referred to nthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J. J. MARCY, of Meriden, in the countyof New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Vent-spout for Oil-Cans; and l do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters ot' reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a vertical central section, the vent open; and, in 'l Figure 2, a vertical central section, the vent closed.

This invention relates to an improvement in the oilcan tube patented to E; B. Beach, July 7, 1868, of which patent the aforesaid E. Miller St Co. hold the exclusivev right, the object of the invention being to vent the can so that the pouring maybe performed without difficulty; and consists in arranging in the tube, upon a single stein, two valves, 'the one a little distance above the other, and combined with an air- .tube, leading from .the valve-tube above the spout into the can, so' that when 'the two valves are raised, both the spout and air-tube are open, and when the valves are depressed,'both are closed.

A is the canyof common construction;

B, the valve-tnbe;

C,the spout;

a, the valve, fixed to the valve-stem d, so that when the stem Ais raised, as in tig. 1, the spout is open, and when depressed, as in fig. 2, the spout is closed.

As thus far described, the construct-ion is the same as in the Beach patent, before referred to, but it will be observed, that moans are required for vent other than that afforded by the spout. For this purpose, I arrange a tube, D, opening into the can, and int the tube B, above thespout, and arrange upon the valvestem a second valve, j, above the valve a, so that when the valves are raised to open the spout, the tube D is also opened into the tube B, and an opening, 'i,.

through the tube B, permits air to pass through the tube B into the can, at the same time oil is poured from the spout; and when the valves are forced down, as in fig. 2, both tubes are closed.

I claim, .as my inventiou- In combination with the tube B, spout C, and valve a, a second valve, f, and tube D, opening into the tube Band can A, the whole constructed and arranged so as to operate as herein set forth.

' J. J. MARCY.

Witnesses: GEO. M. CLARK,- -O. B. ARNOLD. 

